Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended
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#2Or you could just add this to your chrome search engines and set the shortcut to r. Now you don't even have to press control.
Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended
#3While I find the use case useful (I often skip the normal search and default to site:reddit.com/site:stackoverflow.com, etc.), it doesn't do enough for me to justify having yet another plugin in my browser. It could be replaced by a text-expansion tool. In my case, it is deep in my muscle memory so typing it by hand doesn't bother me.
Maybe if this extension supported more types of filters commonly used (e.g. filetype/directory).
Upvoted though for increasing awareness about this one simple trick.
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#4Reddit search is terrible, so you use Google to search Reddit. Google search is terrible for product reviews, so you use it to get to back to Reddit.
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#5The better solution is not to use Google at all. Google invades our privacy and Google keep its users hostages for money. We've to stop Google at any cost.
Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended
#6The better solution is not to use Google at all. Google invades our privacy and Google keep its users hostages for money. We've to stop Google at any cost.
Making the same comment over and over again is really not adding anything to the discussion.
Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended
#7The better solution is not to use Google at all. Google invades our privacy and Google keep its users hostages for money. We've to stop Google at any cost.
I'm actually working on an alternative to Google (though the goal being improved search, not improved privacy), I made this extension during one of the breaks from working on that
Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended
#8The better solution is not to use Google at all. Google invades our privacy and Google keep its users hostages for money. We've to stop Google at any cost.
To offer some alternative, startpage.com uses google search results and claims to be more privacy oriented.
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#9It’s amazing really that the internet or rather the WWW has become a dumpster fire of shitty articles and ML generated click bait articles. I put Reddit in maybe 80% of my google searches to ensure I get actual quality information.
Re: Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended
#10It’s amazing really that the internet or rather the WWW has become a dumpster fire of shitty articles and ML generated click bait articles. I put Reddit in maybe 80% of my google searches to ensure I get actual quality information.
That's because SEO has ruined everything that isn't heavily community-managed.